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I have reformatted and reinstalled Windows xp Home. I reinstalled drivers for my Radeon 8500 AIW AGP (primary) and Radeon 7000 PCI (secondary) display adapters. I was rebooting frequently to get the hardware working. Everything was going well until I reinstalled avast! 6. Then the boot flash screen (Windows xp logo with blue traveling bars) froze again. I rebooted in safemode and disabled the secondary display adapter, after which the normal mode boot proceeded smoothly. I toggled back and forth a couple times to test. From this I conclude: avast! 6 is incompatible with my second Radeon card. I have been running with the card disabled.